A top Pentagon official said SpaceX Starlink rapidly fought off a Russian jamming attack in Ukraine

A Pentagon official has given a description of the speed at which the Starlink fought off the Russian attack.

Dave Tremper, director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told the C4ISRNET Conference that Starlink countered the attack faster than the US military would have been able to.

During the Russian invasion, Starlink, the satellite-based internet division of SpaceX, has been helping Ukrainians stay online. Musk sent Starlink kits to Ukraine after Mykhailo Fedorov requested help from the billionaire.

The first details of a Russian jamming attempt on Starlink's systems are thought to have been provided by Tremper's comments.

After reports of a Russian jamming attack emerged, Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it, and suddenly the attack was not effective anymore, he said.

There is an interesting case study to look at the agility that Starlink had in their ability to address that problem.

In the way that Starlink was able to upgrade when a threat showed up, we need to be able to have that agility.

The director of the Air Force's electromagnetic spectrum superiority said at the conference that the US needed to build new systems that could respond to threats quickly and lethally.

There are more than 5,000 Starlink terminals in the country according to a person familiar with the company.

Insider has been told by experts that Starlink could pose a danger to users in Ukraine.